"Single Shots to the Head": U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees "Extermination of a People" in Gaza

[Uncle Joe]

As Israel continues its full-fledged military ground invasion of Gaza City, Democracy Now! speaks with Kathleen Gallagher, a U.S. military veteran and general surgeon currently volunteering in Gaza, who describes the scene on the ground from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Gallagher says she sees up to 400 patients a day, about 40% of whom are under the age of 20. This week she reports seeing six children killed with gunshot wounds to the head. After volunteering in Honduras and Ukraine, "This is worse than anything I've ever seen," Gallagher says.

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[Dave Bowman]

1. Despicable and inexcusable. This is an extermination program and nothing else.

[Bread and Circuses]

2. Nobel Prize-winning Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel on human suffering

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented“

-Elie Wiesel
Nobel Prize-winning Holocaust survivor, author, and human rights activist who became the world's foremost spokesperson for the Holocaust. His powerful memoir Night detailed his experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps

[AloeVera]

3. He meant all human beings, right?

I wonder what he would say today?

[Bread and Circuses]

4. Indeed.

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He was such a man.

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